Find information about the latest multinational space missions and speak about them.2. Think about possible tasks of such a mission in a five years. How can the goals change with time?
Vocabulary 10
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| | 221) an astronaut
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| | 222) return from one’s stint
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| | 223) on the space station
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| | 224) age-related osteoporosis
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| | 225) set in
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| | 226) crew members
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| | 227) bone mass
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| | 228) round trip
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| | 229) work on a solution
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| | 230) on a regular basis
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| | 231) deprived of gravity
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| | 232) a model for ageing
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| | 233) weight bearing
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| | 234) as we age
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| | 235) skeleton wastes away
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| | 236) load your skeleton
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| | 237) a means of
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| | 238) accelerated ageing
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| | 239) rapid ageing decline
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| | 240) put mechanical signals
into the skeleton
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| | 241) subtle spring
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| | 242) fracture
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| | 243) femur
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| | 244) thighbone
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| | 245) bone density loss
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| | 246) zero gravity
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Discuss the possible recommendations to space tourists
Vocabulary 11
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| | 248) top police investigator
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| | 249) alleged
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| | 250) involvement with a syndicate
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| | 251) criminal corruption
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| | 253) an elite crime fighting agency
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| | 254) bust drug traffickers
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| | 255) law enforcement community
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| | 256) an elite unit
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| | 257) a cocaine smuggling ring
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| | 258) Raid
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| | 259) the Crime Commission's
260) offices
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a. importation plot
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| | 262) policing circles
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| | 263) police Sydney's docks
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| | 264) one’s arrest has sent
265) shock waves
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| | 267) controversial
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| | 268) an alleged conspiracy
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270) chemical
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| | 271) links to Asia
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| | 274) compel witnesses to testify
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b. operations
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c. among lawyers
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| | 279) a judicial officer
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| | 280) (be) given full power
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| | 281) fulfil an organization’s
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| 1. Study the media information related to drug issues. What are the most flagrant cases?
2. Set up an imaginary commission which is to deal with police involvement in drug trade. What experts should be invited? Why?
Vocabulary 12
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| | 238) crystal methamphetamine
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Research Centre
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of using a drug
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drug addiction
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a puddle on the ground
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Compose a charter of an international organization which can aim to protect society from the drug-related crime.
Vocabulary 14
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| | 258) step down as President
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| | 260) temporarily
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| | 262) a revolutionary icon
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2. Compose three possible scenarios of Cuba’s development in the next decade?
Vocabulary 14
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| | 280) blanket ban on flights
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| | 284) bank-up of passengers
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| | 285) frustrated
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| | 286) stranded passengers/commuters
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| | 287) uneasy scene
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2. Analyse the measures of airports and airlines in April,2010 after Iceland’s volcano eruption?
What could have been done differently?
Vocabulary 15
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| | 299) the Korean Peninsula
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| | 300) vow to push ahead with
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| | 301) a live-fire military exercise
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| | 302) grave threats of retaliation
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| | 304) convene a meeting
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| | 305) Yeonpyeong Island
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| | 307) artillery strikes
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| | 308) shelling exercise
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| | 309) barrage
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| | 310) teeter on the brink of war
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Date: 2015-12-17; view: 1013
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